The Osceola times., 1887-05-07

BIDS were opened and contracts award
ed at Rock Island, H., on the Goth, for
$4,000 OF U pper Mississippi improve
ments.
A KNIGHTS OF LABOR committee at
Pittsburgh. Pa, have inaugurated
general boycott against goods OF p. ID. Ar
mour q Co, Of Chicago
In the British House OF Lords, on the
10Th, the question Of subsidizing a Pacac
ocean mail line from Vancouver's island
was discussed.
New ORLEANS interests are combined TO
make strong showing before the Inter-
State Commerce Commission in favor OF
thorough enforcement of the law.
NEW YORK CITY has another official
crookedness sensation, this time in the
tax assessing department, The property
OF millionaires and railway magnates APP
pears TO have been systematically over
looked by the assessors.
SEVENTY yachts have thus far been en-
tered In the Queens jubilee race, and the
number will probably be considerably in
creased before the entries close on June Z.
PETITIONS and memorials, respecting
the troublesome fourth section Of the
Inter State Commerce law, continue to
pour into the office OF the commission.
They are called for short, "long and short
howls"
THE general executive board OF tho
Knights OF Labor, after three days con-
ference with the representatives OF the
stove-molders throughout the country,
have decided that they will not interiors
in the present controversy about the st.
Louis patterns,
THE Missouri Pacific car and machine
shops have been located at Atchison by
General Manager Clarke. They are to be
built on the western limits of the city, and
will be the central shops Of the Missouri
Pacific system for Kansas.
| ADvicEs were received at Rome from
Massowah on the Goth of alarming import,
and indicate disastrous ending Of tho
Abyssinian expedition unless assistance
is rendered without delay. Three battal.
ieEs Of troops have been ordered to en-
barb Immediately TO reinforce the expedi-
tion, and 1t is likely that further reinforce
ments will be dispatched within short
| time.
TRASscoSrISESrAL telegraph rates are
being cut by combination of the Postal,
United Lines and Baltimore Il Ohio COM
panies.
NEWS from the Afghan frontier is of a
rather disquieting nature for British in
terests in that quarter, and the latter
| government is discussing the situation.
The Parnellites con tinue their policy OF
obstruction in the British Parliament,
nearly two hundred amendments being
offered to one clause Of the Crimes act.
THE plate-mill department OF the Key
stone Iron Works at Reading, Pa, was
shut down on the 3Jth, for IN indefinite
period, throwing a large number of men
| out Of employment The Interstate Com
merce law did 1t.
RECENT heavy rains in New England
have produced the greatest freshets
known in nearly twenty years. All the
| rivers are out of bounds, aud much dam
age to property is reported.
SERIOUS pension frauds have recently
been discovered in England, and an chi
cial inquiry has been ordered
| QUIET was restored in Louisville, Ky,
on the 3oth, without any further serious
demonstration. One of the negro culprts
claims to be able TO prove an alibi, but lit
tie credence is given to his story.
MONTANA has declared quarantine
against cattle from Illiuois, New York,
New Jersey, Pennsylvania. Maryland,
Delaware, Virginia, Texas, Vermont and
the District of Columbia.
| The Vatican has notified France that
General Boulanger's military law which
refuses exemption from military serv.
ice to youth or men studying for the
priesthood is an infringement of the con-
cordat
WASHINGTON TERRITORY had two sharp
shocks OF earthquake on the lst.
| Active preparations are going forward
at Washington for the National drill.
THERE is an enormous increase Of emf
grants from Great Britain for Canada,
Australia aud the United States.
THIRTY-EIGHT pedestrians started in a
six days go-as-you-pl please at Philadelphia
on the night Of the 30th. Among them
were Vint Noremac, Hughes and Hart.
The prizes aggregate about $4,000
TUE accounts of the British colonial ex-
hibition have been published and show a
balance Of sl56, l15. II is proposed to trans
fer el0O,0OO of this TO the Imperial lnsti-
stute fund, and with the remainder settle
the deficit Of the Inventions exhibition
and form reserve fund.
WITHIN short time the United States
steamer Galena, Commander Chester, ls
expected to arrive at Washington, having
on board the prehistoric statute secured
from Easter Island by the Mohican, and
but recently transferred to the Galena at
Aspinwall. This piece of work, by an un-
| known race, is destined for the Smith